All posts tagged shorebirds
How to Test Shorebirds for Avian Influenza… Safely
Against the protests of the trappers, we therefore took the unilateral decision to release the birds…Species contained in the bags…included a globally Vulnerable Far Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis, a globally Vulnerable Great Knot, single Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii, Broad-billed Sandpiper Limicola falcinellus and Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus, and several dozen other shorebirds made up largely of Dunlin Calidris alpina, Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus, Mongolian Plover Charadrius mongolus, Sanderling, Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis and Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus…
Waterbirds of Korean Intertidal Wetlands face Extinction
“Waterbirds of Korean Intertidal Wetlands face Extinction” Seoul Press Centre, 10:00-10:30 September 3rd Organised by: Birds Korea/ Microhabitat/Soomdo Center Sponsored by: EcoScience Institute of Ewha University/Roots & Shoots
ABC: Unregulated shooting in the Caribbean threatens migrating shorebirds
Press-release from American Bird Conservancy, August 24, 2012:
- As hurricane season gets under way and Tropical Storm Isaac bears down on the Caribbean, biologists are paying particular
TN95 Nial Moores of Birds Korea on the IUCN/WCC
A conversation with Nial Moores, Director of Birds Korea - the accredited NGO based in the Republic of Korea that works for the conservation of birds and their
New Website highlights Annual Slaughter of Migrating Waders on Barbados
A new website, shorebirdslaughter.com, is highlighting the slaughter (not an over-emotive term given the details below) of migratory shorebirds on the Caribbean island of Barbados. Below is
Birding Australia’s Northern Territory – Day Four
My colleague, Digital Spring's Rob Jolliffe, is in Australia's Northern Territory, enjoying the birding trip of a lifetime courtesy of Tourism NT.
Rob will be sending
Birding Australia’s Northern Territory – Day One
My colleague, Digital Spring's Rob Jolliffe, is in Australia's Northern Territory, enjoying the birding trip of a lifetime courtesy of Tourism NT. Rob will
BirdLife: Shot Whimbrels sparks calls for regulation of shorebird hunting in the Caribbean
From BirdLife Community website http://www.birdlife.org/community/2011/09/shooting-of-whimbrels-sparks-calls-for-regulation-of-shorebird-hunting-in-the-caribbean/, 15 Sept 2011:
Two Whimbrels Numenius phaeopus tracked by scientists from a US university have been shot by hunters on the Caribbean island
Catastrophic Curlew declines in Ireland
From BTO's Birdtrack August 2011 Update:
"As waders migrate south through Britain and Ireland, it is worth taking a moment to reflect on the fortunes of a 'resident' wader
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